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by bell-cot 1561 days ago
> Through a series of steep escalations, the case had passed to officers from counter-terrorism command...

Skimming through the article - the police agencies, justice system, etc. poured an utterly ridiculous number hours and pounds into the case of an old homeless man, who'd dug himself a tiny "hobbit hole" to live in. Those organizations need to be replaced with some sane, reality-oriented ones. And maybe the leaders of the old organizations should be reassigned - to standing sentry duty on the South Sandwich Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sa... After all, some dangerous terrorists in a balloon might try to sneak in and steal one of Her Majesties' glaciers, then flood London by dropping the glacier in the Thames. But with a crack group of counter-terrorist sentries keeping watch 24/7, we'll all be safe from that...

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